Iran Press/Asia: On Tuesday, for the first time in over eight years, the Prime Minister of Israel attended his court session, which addressed charges of financial and administrative corruption in several cases, including bribery, betrayal of trust, and fraud.
In addition to Netanyahu, his son Yair, along with several cabinet ministers and members of the Knesset from the Likud party and Netanyahu's allied parties, attended the meeting.
The court of the Israeli regime has prohibited the live broadcast of the trial proceedings on its television channels. Netanyahu chose not to take the stand as the accused until the reporters and cameramen had exited the courtroom so that no image and video of him as an accused individual would be captured.
Prosecutors accuse Netanyahu of granting regulatory favors worth around 1.8 billion shekels (about $500 million) to Bezeq Telecom Israel (BEZQ.TA) in return for positive coverage of himself and his wife Sara on a news website controlled by the company's former chairman.
The Israeli court trials come as the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Thursday, November 21, that it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former War Minister Yoav Gallant due to their blatant role in crimes they committed in Palestine's Gaza.
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